Beyond the Black Rainbow
Beyond Science. Beyond Sanity. Beyond Control.
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
- 5.7
- 2010
- Released
- 1h 50m
Michael J Rogers
Barry Nyle
Eva Bourne
Elena
Scott Hylands
Mercurio Arboria
Marilyn Norry
Rosemary Nyle
Rondel Reynoldson
Margo
Ryley Zinger
Sentionaut
Gerry South
Skinny Hesher
Chris Gauthier
Fat HesherGeoffrey Conder
Mutant
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Released
en
$1,100,000.00
- #sadism
- #homicide
- #commune
- #delusion
- #exploitation
- #surrealism
- #mad doctor
- #brutality
- #captive
- #transcendence
- #drugged
- #aftercreditsstinger
- #canuxploitation
- #fiend
- #retro horror
- #psychotronic film
- #art film
- #avant garde
Reviews
63/100 I'd give you an idea of what this movie is about but I wouldn't know what to say as I have no idea. Ponderously slow with hardly any exposition, you'd think I would have really disliked it ...but I didn't. Surrealistically stark and sterile, yet strangely beautiful and colorful, it was like walking through a dream straight out of THX 1138. Even though I was finding it very difficult to m
_Beyond the Black Rainbow_ postures as a reverent tribute to 1970s cult sci-fi, but quickly reveals itself as an exercise in imitation rather than inspiration. Instead of channelling the essence of _THX 1138_, _Dark Star_, _Silent Running_, or _Solaris_, it appears to lift entire stylistic elements wholesale, without understanding what made those films resonate. Though drenched in an icy 1980s aes